Senator Gary Humphries suggests asking the people of Canberra how the expected $47 million 2006-7 GST bonus should be spent.
“The ACT Government will receive $758.6 million in GST revenue in 2006-07, a windfall of $47 million compared with the previous system of Financial Assistance Grants and the State taxes that were abolished by the New Tax System.”
“By giving the community a say in how we spend this money, we increase the chance that it will be used in a socially useful way,” Senator Humphries said.”
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I must admit I would be curious to see what ideas the people of Canberra come up with.
Make the compulsory third party insurance on our car rego cheaper! Or, pay some money to open it up to competition like NSW’s green slips.
NRMA has had this market without competition for too long.
and again pure brilliance!
I’ll suggest a ‘work for the dung’ programme, which would encourage recalcitrents to get a real job or keep shovelling shit.
Brilliance, pure brilliance.
But we would need extra people to clean up all the camel dung. Thus creating extra jobs.
Yes a train, not light rail.
Nice point Jey, although put several Camels in a line and it’s called a Train.
light rail for cats and camels
though if we had lots of camels we wouldn’t need light rail
does that mean we should buy camels, or light rail for camels?
and camels
Light rail for cats.
fix the fucking footpaths. i went for a wander around the streets last night and was disgusted.
Stanhope’s put out this snarky press release, following up what I said about Gary Humphries having no right to have a say in what the ACT Government does with the money. He also says the community is consulted about what to spend the federal monies on each year. Not yet online so I’ll stick it here:
I noticed them! I even rung them up about one in my street. They fixed it pretty quickly but it’s quite a band-aid job.
How about spending a few million bucks on road safety measures, as well as investing in a couple of visible patrol cars (and RBT’s outside of Christmas) rather than static, useless speed camera vans.
It might help slow down motorists on roads that aren’t speed camera designated
Or maybe even fix some of the million potholes on Canberra roads that have appeared in the last 6 months. (Am I the only one who has noticed this?)
Queanbeyan?
how about paying the Federal Government $47million to move to somewhere else ?
Seriously,
a direct injection of funds into ACT Mental Health as it is a basket case at present.
More social housing in satelite towns…that worked in Moscow.
How about replacing the middle bit of Northbourne ave with a series of in ground trampolines?